Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-10-15
SHE WAS A NlHlLlsT.
The Terrible Experience of Russian
 Jewess-Among the Refugees.

Jewess-Among the Refugees.
 An anecdote, wh&h is absolutely true in every detail. will illustrate and explain the feelings of some of the refugees in America. Not far from New York po- lice station is a large three story brick building. Years ago it was a handsome dwelling, but time and the small boy have played havoc with its facade, doors, win dows, and railing. It is occupied by well to do Russian, who years ago fled his native land for alleged complicity in some plot against the czar. It has long been kle rendezvous of political refugees of both sexes, Russian Nihilists, Polish Liberators, French Communards, German Socialists, and Cosmopolitan Anarchists. The circle met there is composed of edu- cated and clever people. Nearly all are excellent linguists, and more or less suc- cessful in trade, literature, or professional life Owing probably to the terrible scenes in which they have been actors, | all are more or less eccentric in behavior, speech, or ideas. Not long since party of a dozen men and women were spend ing the evening in the large old fashioned parlor. All smoked, a few slipped the vitriolic vodka between the whiffs of their :.
 
 thirst with the cheap wines of the Rhine and Moselle. The conversation had been political and literary rather than anec7 dotal in character, and had Jagged until the room was almost silent. The only person speaking was a handsome Jewess, of 24 or 9, whose name or nom de guerre was Theodora Ounavitsch. She was rare type of that race, being superb blonde with bright golden hair, large lustrous blue eyes, and exhibiting the powerful figure and splendid health | which characterizes the Hebrew women to so remarkable degree. As she paused at the end of an argument and drained | glass of Josephshoefer, some one asked, "What made you Nihilist, Dora:'
 'Nothing very remarkable to us Rus sians, ,'' she replied. q belong to a good family in small town in the Warsaw province I married the rabbi of our synagogue. and we were very happy for few months. The czar then made a change, and sent down a new governor from St. Petersburg to replace our old one, who was good and just man, al though a Russian general. The new conner had every vice and no virtue of any kind He was so bad and cruel that our friends and relatives wrote us when he came warning us against him. My husband the next Sabbath i'll the syna- gogue told our peoD about him, and ad- vised them to be overcautious in not vio- lating any of the thousand tyrannical laws with which we were cursed. Though he spoke ill Hebrew for fear of spies, some one betrayed him to the governor. He was arrested, tried, fiogged on the public square into insensibility, and sent to Si- beria for life. 1 was present when he underwent his agony, and stood it unti 1 became crazed. 1 broke throl;r,h ths crowd t0wSrd the wretch Of an official and cursed h,m and his master the czar and swore vengeance against both. tO' was arrested and tried at court martial and sentenced to receive a hundred blow with the rod i'll the public square. I, woman, was taken by drunken mouiik and heather C0ssacks to the place, tie( by my hands to the whipping post, m, clothing torn from my body to the waist and beaten before all the soldiery and tn people of the town. At the twentiet blow tainted, but the ropes held meTI and the full hundred were counted on m body. They cut me down, rubbed roc salt and water and some iron that eat like fire into my back to stop the bleed ing. and carried me to the hospital.
 II lay there two months and was di 7 charged. I had but one idea then, an that was vengeance. By patience mal aged to get employment in the governor palace as seamStress. One afternoon | was in his bath and sent for towels. IT attendant was tired, and volunteered 1 take them. I threw them over my arl and under them I held a long stflet
 sharp as needle. I entered the room and he was reading and smoking ill u Y bath. I laid the towels by his side vii my left hard, and at the next momel with my right drove the knife throus his heart. It was splendidly doness I never made a sound, and 1 escaped
 this land. That is why am Nihilis
 Do any of you doubt P She sprang e
 citedlv from her chair, and in a half
 minute had barred herself to the wai'
 The front of her form from neck to b'
 might have passed as the model of t
 Venus di Milo, but the back! Ridge !. welts and furrows that crossed and inte
 laced as if cut out with redhot fro patches of white, gray, pink, blue a
 angry red; holes and hollows with ha1
 hideous edges; half visible ribs and
 edges of ruined muscles, and all of whi
 moved, contracted and heightened wi
 the swaying of her body. There was
 gasp from every one present. The az
 host rose silently kissed her on the fo
 head, and helped her to put, back her g
 ments. Then again the wine pass ' round, and what secret toasts were ma D. as the party drank will never be know
 William E. $. Fales ill Chicago Tim